A Great Act of Bravery.

A Great Act of Bravery. , 1970 (50:2)

Annotation: About the heroic struggle and labor of the Soviet people during the Great Patriotic War (Soviet Peoples’ participation in World War II in 1941-1945).

Film description: The film materials are used TSGAKFD Gosfilmofond USSR and the Soviet Union. Showing the heroic struggle and labor of the Soviet people during the Great Patriotic War. Used newsreels to read: invading Nazi forces in France, Poland, Norway; plan "Barbarossa" (MLTP), Germany's attack on the USSR, the German tanks, infantry and aviation in the USSR; border fighting, fighting the Red Army; the ruins of Brest Fortress, the corpses of the defenders, membership cards slain soldiers, German soldiers in occupied Soviet countryside, murdered women and children; defense of Odessa; fighting the Soviet naval infantry and coastal artillery during the siege of Sevastopol, guerrillas blew up bridges and railroad tracks; for steelworkers work in the shop of the Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Combine, the work of miners; women in the shop defense plant, the production of shells, the streets of besieged Leningrad in the winter, anti-tank barricades in the streets of Moscow, the population builds defenses, the militias, the military parade in Moscow Red Square on Nov. 7, 1941; battles for Moscow, the columns of prisoners of the Germans, defeated German engineering at Moscow, a concentration camp, Himmler in a concentration camp, the women in the barracks in the camp; human bones in the oven, the teaching of American troops, Churchill passes the troops, aircraft production, ready-Soviet planes in the shop, the tank leaves the factory shop, the Battle of Stalingrad; Command Stalingrad Front - Colonel-General KKRokossovsky, Colonel-General Vatutin, Colonel-General AI Eremenko, representatives of the Supreme Command Vasilevsky, NN Voronov, F. Paulus surrenders into captivity captive German soldiers; mourning ceremony in Berlin, the Foreign Minister of Great Britain A. Eden, on the importance of the Battle of Stalingrad (synchronously), raising the national flag of the Soviet Union in the royal residence, the Royal Albert Hall ", a nurse bandaging the wounded, landing in the mountains ; fighting in the Caucasus Mountains; awarding General AA Grechko combat sword - a gift of the Caucasian peoples; fireworks in Leningrad in honor of the town's liberation from the blockade, Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt at the Teheran Conference, Churchill presents AND . Stalin's honorary sword - a gift of King George VI; battle at Kursk; salute in Moscow in honor of the liberated towns, crossing over the river of Soviet soldiers. Dnieper; welcomed the population of Soviet soldiers fighting the Soviet forces for the liberation of Romania, Yugoslavia, Poland from Nazi occupation, the destruction in Warsaw concentration camp prisoners, opening a second front in Europe, the population of Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Soviet soldiers welcome the monuments of the Soviet Soldiers in the cities of Eastern Europe, the cemetery of Soviet soldiers in Italy, the Battle of Berlin, Soviet soldiers are hoisting the flag over the Reichstag, the people rejoice in the Victory Day on the square in New York City, London, Paris, Victory Parade in Red Square in Moscow.

Source description 1: Contemporary shooting - Pigeons are fly up over the bridge across the river. A mother teaching her little child to walk. Young parents with their child are going. Young men and girls are walking along the street; young couples; a soldier with a girl. Great Patriotic War newsreel - soldiers in entrenchments are smoking cigarettes, having a rest, and reading letters. Contemporary shooting – There is a bust of Hitler in a junk shop in a small town in Holland; people are laughing, looking at the sculpture in the shop. War newsreel - Soviet soldiers are running towards the Reichstag building with a flag. People in liberated European cities and towns are tearing off fascist flags, swastikas, breaking a sculpture of Hitler, and burning fascist flags. The USA aggression in Vietnam – American planes are flying there, soldiers are arresting Vietnamese and setting houses on fire. There are Vietnamese women and children in refuges. Israeli soldiers are guiding an arrested Arab. There are the corpses of the Arabs shot by the Israelis. Military vehicles of “black colonels” [the military men who established military dictature in Greece (1976-1974)] are in Athens streets. American military bases in various countries. Rockets at the bases; soldiers at the control console. Policemen are dispersing an anti-war demonstration and beating the demonstrators. A march of revenge-seekers in Germany. The neo-Nazi leader Von Tadden is passing by. Women at a session of the neo-fascist organization “NDP”” [Neo-Nazi German Party]. Newsreel of 1945 – Soviet troops are assaulting Berlin. The Brandenburg Gate is on fire; white flags hung out of the windows. The pre-war Berlin – flags with the swastika are hoisted, soldiers are marching. Contemporary shooting - a lesson at a French school. Children are answering the question “Who is Hitler?” – “He is a monster who wants to kill everyone”. 1938 - The Prime Minister of England Lord Chamberlain, who has come back from the city of Munich, is making a speech, and showing the Non-Aggression Pact concluded with Germany. A crowd is greeting Chamberlain. Fires in London after a raid of German planes. Wounded men are being carried out of ruins. The French Maginot Defense Line - tunnels, the equipment room, a kitchen, an observation post, and fortifications. German troops in the territory of France. There are French refugees on the roads; a German plane is firing on the road with refugees. A column of French prisoners of war is walking by. The cities of Prague are greeting the German soldiers. There are fires in the city of Warsaw, occupied by Germans. German soldiers in Norway. There are refugees on roads; a German soldier is hanging a sheet with an order for the Norway inhabitants. Hitler time German fascist soldiers are arresting civilians in European countries. Arms production at military plants in occupied Europe. “Barbarossa Plan”. Contemporary shooting – Veterans of the Great Patriotic War veterans are in the Red Square in Moscow and in other cities at the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Victory. Meetings of comrade-in-arms. Newsreel of 1941 - German tanks are crossing the USSR border, German planes are flying; there are fires on the ground.

Source description 2: Newsreel –a village is on fire in the territory occupied by Hitler time German fascist troops; German soldiers are shooting civilians, the corpses of the killed women and children are lying on the ground. A Soviet soldier is throwing a grenade at a German tank. Soviet soldiers are running to the assault, shooting from submachine and machine guns; cannons are firing, a German tank is on fire; Soviet tanks are attacking; a signalman with a radio set is in the entrenchment. A German plane is flying, Soviet anti-aircraft guns are firing, the German plane is burning and crashing. There is destroyed German equipment on the battlefield. German troops are advancing into the Soviet territory; German soldiers are in the entrenchments, cisterns with fuel are on fire. A German mobile radio station, a German soldier is transmitting demands in Russian to yield oneself prisoners. The Brest Fortress ruins, inscriptions on the walls made by the Fortress defenders and the corpses of Soviet soldiers defending the Fortress. A Communist Party membership card stained with blood is being taken out of a killed soldier’s pocket; The perished soldiers’ Communist Party membership cards stained with the blood. A portrait of Lenin with the inscription “I am going to fight and you are with me; I will die as a communist...” Cannons from the ships defending the city of Odessa are firing. Odessa during the days of its defense: fortifications in the streets, a tram is going by, an appeal to the city defenders on the house wall. Soviet Navy men are fighting against Germans on land close to the city of Sevastopol, bombarding the enemy positions from ships. The city of Leningrad during the days of the blockade – a gun point on the quay, a military ship on the Neva River, people are walking along a snow-covered street, the inscription on a house wall: “This side is the most dangerous during bombardment”, tanks are going along Nevsky Avenue, a soldier is maintaining surveillance from a house roof. Wartime Moscow –shop windows in Gorky street are closed with bags, the Mausoleum in the Red Square is masked, the Bolshoi Theater building is masked, and there are military patrols in the Sverdlov Square. There are anti-aircraft guns on the Kiev Bridge and at other defense points in the city. Moscow citizens are digging antitank ditches at the approaches to the city. Columns of soldiers and military equipment are going to the front. Militia men are receiving weapons: rifles and grenades. Guerrilla warriors’ actions in the enemy rear- guerrillas are firing on German soldiers in a village, blowing up a railway track. A train with a German punitive detachment is going by, the Germans are firing on the forest from weapons from the train, the bridge is blowing up; the train carriages are falling down the slope. A guerrilla detachment in the forest, fires are burning, parachute landing in the guerrilla detachment’s encampment. Children are being sent by planes and trains from the zone occupied by the Germans to the Soviet rear. There is a woman with a little child in the carriage for evacuees. Products for the front are being released at the unfinished evacuated factory. Workers-metallurgists in the Magnitogorsk Integral Plant workshops. Motor vehicles with grain for the front are going, miners are working, and women and children are working in the military plant workshops; finished shells. Contemporary shooting - the monument to the defenders of Moscow on the Leningrad Highway. Newsreel – The attack of German troops near Moscow, a German officer is looking through his field-glass at Moscow; German officers are at the map. The Military Parade in the Red Square on November 7, 1941 – there are columns of troops in the square, and the soldiers are listening to Joseph Stalin’s speech. The Red Army units going to the front are marching.

Source description 3: Newsreel – The offensive of Soviet troops at Moscow. Generals K.Rokossovsky and I.Konev are at the observation post. Generals G. Zhukov, V. Sokolovsky and other military leaders are by the map in the staff headquarters. The map of the Germans’ defeat near Moscow. The counterattack of the Soviet troops– “Katyusha” cannons and guns are firing; a large number of bombers aere attacking, the bombs are falling on the German positions, there are explosions on the ground, tanks and the infantry are attacking, skiers in camouflage cloaks are going to the assault, the corpses of German soldiers are lying on the battlefield. German soldiers are leaving their shelters, their hands are raised, they are yielding themselves prisoners; a column of German prisoners of war, captured near Moscow, is walking along the wintry road. Damaged German equipment. French Resistance fighters are listening to the message about the Germans’ defeat near Moscow by the radio. Bulgarian and Yugoslavian guerrillas are listening to the radio; they are rejoicing and smiling. A French guerrilla warrior is attaching to the wall a leaflet with the appeal for resistance to the German aggressors. Guerrillas’ activities in the occupied countries of Europe: blowing up railway tracks, cutting communication wires. German invaders are on the Greek Acropolis. German submachine gunners are leading Greek priests. A portrait of Hitler is in the monastery gallery. A concentration camp – there is barbed wire, barracks, crematorium furnaces, and the corpses of tortured people. Hitler is examining the concentration camp; prisoners are at the other side of the barbed wire. Contemporary shooting - the Monument on Mamai’s Barrow. New buildings in the city of Volgograd. Newsreel – wartime Stalingrad [former name of Volgograd]. Fires in the city, street fighting; mortar gunners are shooting, a wounded soldier is being led, submachine gunners are taking positions in the ruins. General V. I. Chuikov is at the command post. The funeral of the soldiers perished in the battles for Stalingrad. Great Britain - 1941-1942. A parade of English troops. Winston Churchill is at the Parade. 1941-1941: American Army battle exercises - artillery is firing at the models of enemy ships, the infantry is going to attack the maneuver enemy, the landing of troops. The German Navy is attacking an American convoy heading for the USSR with foodstuffs and military equipment. The manufacturing of tanks and planes at Soviet factories in the rear area. Echelons with military equipment are going to the front. A battle in the Stalingrad Tractor Factory territory. The participants in working out the plan of the counterattack near Stalingrad named “Uran” [“Uranus”]: Generals A. M. Vasilevsky, N. N. Voronov, N. F. Vatutin, K. K. Rokossovsky, A. I. Eremenko, and others. - (shooting of 1942). The map of the Battle for the city of Stalingrad. The beginning of the Stalingrad counterattack – weapons and “Katyusha” cannons are firing; tanks and infantry are rushing to attack. The junction of the two fronts which have squeezed the German troops in a “trap”. German soldiers are yielding themselves prisoners; Germans with a white flag. Field Marshal Paulus [Commander of the 6th German Army] and his Staff members are passing some documents to the Soviet Command representatives. Captured Germans. Soviet tanks are going by the liberated Stalingrad. The mournful ceremony taking place in Berlin on the occasion of the defeat near Stalingrad of the German army under the command of Paulus. The Volga River; a panorama of a killed German soldier.

Source description 4: Newsreel - Great Britain. In London in the Royal Palace a festival is taking place on the occasion of the victory of the Soviet Army near Stalingrad. The Foreign Minister of England Anthony Eden is speaking. The USSR flag is being hoisted in the Hall; the song “International” is sounding, and the present are applauding. Reports from the fronts – orderlies are bandaging wounded soldiers on the battlefield, the troops are moving ahead to new positions, troops are crossing the river, parachute landing of troops in the Caucasus Mountains, a fight in the mountains, a mortar gunner is shooting. Caucasus inhabitants are handing over a sword to General A.A.Grechko. Leningrad during the blockade breakthrough – guns are firing, tanks and infantry are attacking. Fighters of the Leningrad and Volkhov Fronts are embracing. The fireworks in Leningrad in honor of lifting the siege. Fireworks on the ship. The Teheran Conference of the Allies. Winston Churchill is handing Joseph Stalin a gift from King George VI, an honorary sword. The Soviet statesmen Vyacheslav Molotov and Kliment Voroshilov are present at the ceremony. Joseph Stalin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill are having their pictures taken the palace terrace. Soviet soldiers in entrenchments before the Kursk Battle – they are reading newspapers, smoking, and checking their weapons. Generals K. K. Rokossovsky, P. S. Rybalko and I. S. Konev are examining the surroundings from the blindage. The commander is speaking by field telephone. Military leaders are at the map. The map. Counterattack of the Soviet troops on the Kursk Bulge – “Katyusha” cannons and artillery are firing, tanks are going. A tank battle between the Soviet and German troops. A Soviet aircraft is bombing German positions; there are explosions on the ground. A panorama from the plane on the destroyed German military equipment. The shooting by German cameramen – the retreat of German troops in the Kursk Bulge. Germans are setting on fire houses and destroying the railway. The corn in the field is on fire. Soviet tanks are going pass the streets of the liberated cities and towns.Fireworks in honor of the liberation of the cities from the German occupation. Soviet soldiers are hoisting Banners in the cities liberated from the German aggressors. Triumphant people. Soviet troops are forcing the Dnieper River. The inhabitants of the liberated cities and villages are greeting the Soviet soldiers. The soldiers are embracing the women and children. The map showing the Soviet border violated by Germany on June 22, 1941, and the restored USSR border from the Black Sea to the Barents Sea. Soviet soldiers are going along the street in one of the European cities liberated from the occupation. Battles in the European territory – cannons are firing, a tank battle, soldiers are pulling a cannon. Battles for liberating of the city of Budapest. A wounded soldier is being bandaged and taken away. The city of Warsaw destroyed by the fascists; shot civilians. Soviet soldiers are helping out the concentration camp prisoners; they are carrying out the children in their arms. Polish refugees are returning to the liberated city. A column of soldiers of the Allied armies is marching by. The landing of troops in Normandy - soldiers and military equipment are heading for the coast; they are going into action. American soldiers captured by Hitler time German fascist troops in Ardennes. The captured Americans are being led away by column to the concentration camp.

Source description 5: Newsreel – An English landing operation in Greece. Tanks, military equipment, and infantry are going along the streets of Greek cities. English soldiers are conducting military operations against the participants of the anti-fascist Greek Resistance, arresting Greek patriots. The inhabitants of Romanian cities are welcoming Soviet soldiers-liberators. The inhabitants of Poland are joyfully greeting Soviet soldiers. Soviet soldiers and Polish Army warriors are walking along the city street. The Czechoslovak Corps soldiers are in the formation. General L.Svoboda is reviewing the formation of the soldiers. The Bulgaria inhabitants are greeting Soviet soldiers and Bulgarian guerrillas. The citizens of Prague are welcoming Soviet soldiers. Soviet soldiers are talking to peasants (in a European country); a peasant woman is treating the soldiers. In a liberated (European) country peasants are receiving documents which give them the right to use the land; they are setting pegs on their fields. Workers and peasants are viewing paintings in the former royal palace. Contemporary shooting – The unveiling of monuments to the Soviet warriors-liberators in various European cities. The unveiling of the monument in Budapest. Thr cemetery of Soviet soldiers in some European country. A stone on the tomb with the inscription “Mishka – a tank operator”. A cemetery in the forest. A cemetery in Italy. A stone on the tomb with the inscription “The Soviet Army warriors who bravely fought on the battlefield are buried here.” A cemetery in Warsaw; the monument in Prague. The monument in Treptow Park. Monuments to the Soviet soldiers in various USSR cities. The Eternal Flame at the Kremlin Wall. Children and people of different ages are laying flowers on the Grav of the Unknown Soldier. The military operations of Soviet soldiers in the German territory; tanks and infantry are attacking. A road sign: “Germany”, tanks are going a young traffic policewoman is showing the way to Berlin. Soviet military leaders are at the map before assaulting Berlin. Battles for Berlin – cannons are firing, Soviet soldiers are running along the street, shooting; orderlies are carrying out wounded men from the line of fire. Soviet soldiers are leading German soldiers out from the ruins where they were hiding. Street fighting. The hoisting of the Soviet Banner on the top of the Reichstag building. People in the Red Square on May 9, 1945 are embracing and congratulate each other on the Victory. Celebrations of Victory in New York, London, and Paris. Bells are ringing. The Victory Parade in the Red Square on June 24, 1945. Columns of troops are marching by; soldiers are throwing fascist banners to the Mausoleum foot. Marshals G. M. Zhukov, A. M. Vasilevsky, K. K. Rokossovsky, N. N. Voronov, I. S. Konev, L. A. Govorov, K. A. Meretskov, A. I. Eremenko, I. H. Bagramyan are present at the Victory Parade. Contemporary shooting – the Victory Parade in Moscow: military equipment is going p by. Ukraine in 1967. A.A.Grechko, Leonid Brezhnev, Alexey Kosygin. Nikolay Podgorny, and P. E. Shelest [Soviet statesmen] are standing on the platform during the parade of the troops which took part in the exercises “Dnepr” [“Dnieper River”]. Rockets are on the march. Newsreel - Soviet soldiers demobilized after the Victory in 1945 are walking by; a soldier with girl in his arms.

Directors: Grigorev R., Nebylickiy B.

Script writers: Gastev A.

Composers: Krylatov E.

Announcer: Khmara L.

Text writers: Itskov I.